Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the musical performance season in greater Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. Part one was published in Entertainment Sept. 18.
This week we spotlight presentations by the All Children's Chorus of...

Joseph James Delimater III is the Republican candidate for Anne Arundel County Sheriff.
Biography
Glen Burnie resident Joseph James Delimater III is running to be a "constitutional sheriff" in Anne Arundel County.
Delimater has attended 12-week...

Ten musicians and two ensembles have been cut from the 162-year-old Naval Academy Band, the Navy's oldest.
The changes come as Navy command works to cut costs and become more efficient with its music programs, according to a statement from Judy...

Del. Herb McMillan protested his exclusion from a candidate forum in Annapolis Thursday after being denied a seat.
Organizers of the event at Calvary United Methodist Church, including Bridge Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, said candidates...

Perhaps I've been watching too much TV.
When I think of a house in which an NCIS agent would reside, I think of walls painted in dark somber colors, heavy drapes, accents of polished gunmetal and steel, stodgy traditional furniture, a gun rack, and, a lot of high tech electronics.
And maybe a few "Beat Army!" posters.
NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service. It is, according to its website, an elite federal law enforcement agency with over 2,000 agents stationed worldwide in over 40...

On July 5th 1960, 1,265 young men took the oath to become Midshipmen in the United States Navy at the Naval Academy. Four years later, 917 classmates graduated and were commissioned ensigns in the Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps.
I just returned from Annapolis where we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of that graduation. Nearly 60% of the 770 living graduates attended. We reminisced on the remarkable journey we had made over five decades, and honored our 174 deceased classmates.
The...

Capt Richard Derickson's hat is on its way to its family, at least for a little while.
Annapolis Maritime Antiques in Eastport had the Naval Academy graduate's fore and aft styled hat, which hadn't been issued since before World War II. The staff knew it belonged to a R.B. Derickson Jr., who died in 1992. Some research led them to his daughter, Dorothea Derickson, who now lives in Oregon. She returned to Annapolis last week to collect the hat.
Because her father has five grandchildren — living...

Vice Adm. Walter E. Carter Jr., the Naval Academy superintendent, spoke to the BWI Business Partnership on Wednesday about his focuses for the academy: cyber training, leadership and ethics, and improving coalition partnerships.
Carter said cyber instruction is increasingly important, and mentioned the $120 million cybersecurity training facility that is expected to begin construction on the academy's campus in 2016.
"We've changed our thinking," he said. "Cyber is integrated in everything we do. Now,...

"Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?" — Francis Scott Key.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" belongs to all Americans, but Marylanders get a special thrill when it is played. In many ways, they're playing our song.
The author of the words was a Marylander: Francis Scott Key was born at Terra Rubra in what is now Carroll County, was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis and married in the city as well,...

Navy's women's basketball team won 24 games last season and earned a berth in the Women's National Invitational Tournament.
The Mids won't officially begin preparing for the 2014-15 season until October, but coach Stefanie Pemper thinks her team will benefit next week when the USA Women's Basketball Team begins training at the academy in defense of the USA's FIBA World Championship title.
Twenty-seven players -- including such standouts as Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings and Candace Parker -- will gather...